Speed S. Fry

Speed Smith Fry (9 September 1817-1 August 1892) was a Brigadier-General of the US Army during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.

Biography
Speed Smith Fry was born in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky on 9 September 1817, and he graduated from Wabash College in 1840 to become a lawyer. He served as a US Army volunteer captain during the Mexican-American War, with his company firing the last shots of the fighting at Buena Vista in 1847. When the American Civil War broke out, he became a colonel of the Kentucky militia, and Fry and his regiment fought at Mill Springs in January 1862; Fry himself pulled out a pistol and shot Confederate general Felix Zollicoffer when he mistakenly rode to join Fry's regiment, believing it to be a Confederate regiment. On 21 March 1862, Fry was promoted to Brigadier-General of volunteers, and he fought at Corinth and Perryville. He commanded the North Kentucky Sub-District for the rest of the war, and he was mustered out of favor on 24 August 1865. In 1866, he was an unsuccessful Republican Party candidate for the US Congress, and he died in Louisville in 1892 at the age of 74.